1st Birthday of the Year award goes to.......

Well, I can't escape reality. He's six years old, and loves cowboy boots so much that I'm not sure what we'll do this summer when it's time to wear shorts. Can you get away with wearing cowboy boots with shorts when you are six? Since his old pair were quite worn out, we thought that a new pair would be just the thing to get him for his birthday. Rob left work for a bit to meet me at

West of Ole England to help him pick out a new pair. A quick, but fun excursion.

As per Nate's request, his birthday dinner menu looked like this:

hot dogs

hamburgers

chips

cake

icecream

Dr. Pepper

Mommy added: baked beans

baked potato salad

Healthy, huh? Nate also ordered a lemon flavored cake with white icing, monster trucks and cars. Thank goodness for Google! I got some ideas in no time as to how to put that cake all together.

And thus begins the birthday season! Next up? Me! :-) I used to be first.....